English Recordings

against (especially in sporting and legal use)

versus; ex: England versus Australia

a pair of hinged panels fixed inside or outside a window

shutters

to declare

to claim = to state

'it turned out'

it appeared to be that....= it proved to be

mostly

largely

to notice

to spot

to approach

to come up

say something indistinctly and quietly, making it difficult for others to hear

to mumble = to mutter = to murmur; ex: She looked at me, mumbled ‘I found you’; and lost consciousness.

the state of being aware of and responsive to one’s surroundings

consciousness

the five senses

sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch

(of spoken or written language) expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way; unclear

incoherent = incomprehensible; ex: He was unstable on his legs and largely incoherent.

Mysterious

Enigmatic

Fast

rapidly = quickly

about room's dimentions

long; broad; high; ex: His cell was six or seven feet long, four feet broad, and five feet high.

dried stalks of grain

straw

a person or animal that catches or confines another

a captor

pass or cause to pass from place to place or person to person

to circulate = to spread

(of a child) born of parents lawfully married to each other

Legitimate

герцог, герцогиня

Duke, Duchess

граф, графиня

Count (Earl), Countess

a person's child or children
offspring

to protect

to secure = to guard

receive (money, property, or a title) as an heir at the death of the previous holder

inheritance = legacy = heritage

an injury

a wound

opposite for 'to land'

to take off

a ship or large boat; a hollow container

a vessel

sweep over (something) so as to surround or cover it completely

to be engulfed by/in

in a prison

behind bars

follow the course or trail of (someone or something), typically in order to find them or note their location at various points

to track

a paved path for pedestrians at the side of a road

a sidewalk

пугало

a scarecrow

-(November 12, 2012)------------------------------
The following are from my entries the day before yesterday.
Some friends corrected them for me. Thanks to them. Now I`m rewriting again. Please check it again if I have any other mistakes. Thanks for reading.

---(November 10, 2012）
1
When you feel depressed, do you have any good way/ method to become happy/lift up the mood? If you do, let me know it.

2
lying on the bed typing on cellphone .
I'm lying on the bed and typing on my cellphone.It's not easy but I'm trying, because I don't want to get up now.@_@ What are you doing now?

.3 <My Two Dogs>
My two dogs want to come into my room, but my husband doesn't like it, so they are waiting outside the door right now.However when my husband is away they always come in and sleep with me. Do you like dogs?Thanks for reading and correcting. /°_^/
4 <My son>
My son hasn't come home yet".
Today is Saturday so he doesn't need to go to his office to work.
Today at noon he went out to meet a friend.
I hope he is having a good time.
I'm sleepy now.

(11/11/12)< A Pair of Tropical Fish>
(November 11,2012) A Pair of Tropical Fish
On my way back home, I stopped by a market.
When I was passing by a tropical fish shop, I stopped to watch the fish.

Then I bought a pair of tropical fish.
They're very small, about 2 to 3 cm long.
One fish costs 3,000 Korean won so the total for both fish was 6,000 Korean won.
According to the clerk, this kind of fish is called a 'goofy', but I`m not sure how to spell it.
Anyway, I hope they will live happily.

The following are the pictures which/that I took at the tropical fish shop./
I took the following pictures at the tropical fish shop".

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité

There was a town in the middle of the world. It was stretched on the open spaces of the mighty Dnepr River and has been called Kiev. When the sunlight was dissolved in a lunar glow, they appear. House

The 15-day celebration of Lunar New Year

There are many other interesting and complicated customs that accompany the New Year celebration. Certain things must be done on certain days, according to traditional Chinese culture.

‧The first day of the Lunar New Year is "the welcoming of the gods of the heavens and earth." Fireworks herald the celebration as people visit the oldest members of their families.

‧On the second day, married daughters return to their parents' home. Sons-in-law pay respect to their parents-in-law by bringing gifts. Both parties give red envelopes to the children.

‧After visiting family and friends, many people go back to work on the fifth day. Factories and stores reopen with firecracker explosions. Tables of food and paper money are set at their main entrances.

‧Throughout the 15-day celebration, Asians visit their relatives and friends freely. They also visit the temples to pray for good fortune and health. Using fresh produce, people make a drink (or other special food) from vegetables to celebrate the birthday of human beings. Noodles may be eaten to promote longevity and raw fish for success.

‧On the eighth day some people have another family reunion dinner, and at midnight they pray to Tian Gong, the God of Heaven.

‧The ninth day is for making offerings to the Jade Emperor. For the remaining days, friends and relatives are invited for dinner. After so much rich food, people often eat simple rice congee and mustard greens to cleanse the system.

‧The 15th day of the New Year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.

Join in the festivities in your area and wish all your friends a prosperous New Year!

too attractive, or too powerful or convincing to be resisted

irresistible

marked with or having stripes

striped

believe in and follow the practices of

to adhere = to stick; ex: I'll stick with my decision.

an animal, esp. a large or dangerous four-footed one

a beast; ex: a wild beast

publicly proclaim or teach (a religious message or belief)

to preach

a proverb about trust

trust but verify

to form a conjecture about a subject, think deeply before making a decision or reaching a conclusion

to speculate = to meditate = to contemplate = to ponder = to think over = to reflect

used to introduce a statement it contrast to something

however; ex: However, I would argue otherwise.

in a different way

otherwise

strong enough
sturdy; ex: a sturdy brunch

for that reason

consequently = and so = therefore

legally acceptable

valid

look attentively at

to consider

used to present factors that are opposed or that support opposing opinions

on the one (or the other) hand

having or showing care and conscientiousness in one's work or duties

diligent = industrious = hard-working; ex: He was a diligent student, working day and night.

If you are a diligent employee you deserve...

raise & promotion

a set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something

an opportunity = a chance

< Nov 10th 2012> <A park that I stopped by today on my way home>
• Today I feel a little tired, (So) I would like to get some rest. {So I would like to take some rest.}
• I'd better start going to bed sooner.
• I stopped by a park near my house on my way home today.
• The entire park looked like a picture of autumn. ( The view of the park really looked like autumn (had arrived).) Beautiful!
• I took a few pictures.
• However I can't attach those pictures right now, because I'm writings with my phone this time.
• Tomorrow I'll upload the pictures.

last nine

1-I had never seen such a beautiful beach before I went to Kauai.
2-I did not have any money because I had lost my wallet.
3-Tony knew Istanbul so well because he had visited the city several times.
4-Had Susan ever studied Thai before she moved to Thailand?
5-She only understood the movie because she had read the book.
6-Kristine had never been to an opera before last night.
7-We were not able to get a hotel room because we had not booked in advance.
8-Had you ever visited the U.S. before your trip in 2006?
9-Yes, I had been to the U.S. once before.
10-We had had that car for ten years before it broke down.
11-By the time Alex finished his studies, he had been in London for over eight years.
12-They felt bad about selling the house because they had owned it for more than forty years.
13-She had visited her Japanese relatives once in 1993 before she moved in with them in 1996.
14-She had never seen a bear before she moved to Alaska.
15-You had previously studied English before you moved to New York.
16-Had you previously studied English before you moved to New York?
17-George had repaired many cars before he received his mechanic's license.
18-Many cars had been repaired by George before he received his mechanic's license.
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